buckie
Definition of buckie
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chiefly Scottish
: a spiral-shelled marine gastropod or its shell; especially : red whelk
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Origin and Etymology of buckie
perhaps modification of Latin buccinum, bucinum, a shellfish used in dyeing purple, from bucina, buccina trumpet, shell used as a trumpet
buckie
Definition of buckie
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Scottish
: a perverse intractable person
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Origin and Etymology of buckie
perhaps modification of Latin buccinum
buckie
Definition of buckie
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New England
: alewife 1a; especially : an alewife smoked for food
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